Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery ...

Most of the intact scrolls were easily readable by anyone who knew Hebrew or, in one case, Aramaic. The fragmentary scrolls, however, presented a more difficult problem. These too were mostly ...

The name of God, though, exclusively appears in Hebrew. Israel Antiquities Authority's (IAA) director Israel Hasson said the scroll and other ... a 6,000-year-old mummified skeleton of a child ...

The five Old Testament books dealt with in this volume of the Commentary occupied a special place in Hebrew tradition as selected readings for major festivals and were accordingly brought together in ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ...

After six months of analysis, experts released a 200-page report detailing how the fragments were forged - likely made from old ... The scrolls are a set of ancient manuscripts of the Hebrew ...

The services in the synagogue are led by a religious leader called a rabbi, which means ‘Teacher’ in Hebrew. These are the Torah scrolls being ... Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem ...

While Hebrew’s exact origins within this family are debated, its ancient lineage is undeniable. How Old Hebrew is Compared to ...

MOST JEWS, whether religious or not, are familiar with the Talmudic precept that whoever saves a single life is as one who ...

10, the 66-year-old engineer stepped forward during a Shabbat ... get more of its congregants to not only read the ancient Hebrew scroll but put it to melody using the musical notation system ...